The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-06-09

Che funk, che laly,
Heigh no, chicky, why don't you lay!
And then the great State of Indiana which
leads the whole galaxy in education (see Com
missioner Education's Report) will rely upon
the Journal to brighten up the dense fog of ig-
norance. which for the three months Of college
vacation must otherwise settle over all Hoosler-
dom.
When we first came to this campus,
We were freshmen green as grass;
Now IS grave and reverend seniors,
Smile Der the verdant past.
Chorus before.)
This was not the song the graduating class of
the State University sang yesterday as they
walked onto the stage at A. NJ, meekly follow
ing President Jordan and Professor Atwater to
their places. They looked too grave and serious
to sing any song, but might have chented
funeral march.
Trustee Jim Mitchell attributed this awful
solemnity to the fact that all graduating students
and all applicants for degrees of any kind are re-
quired to write theses upon subjects agreed
upon by the student and professor, In
addition to passing in all their studies,
and behaving themselves for four years
These theses are an old enough educational
wrinkle; they were started by Socrates and that
gang long ago in the academe. and Martin
Luther had a serious time of it in defending his;
the thesis is at Bloomington the logical and ex-
tended presentation Of a subject connected with
the regularly elected course of the student in
college, and has been a common requirement In
law and medical schools.
AS the graduating pieces were based mainly
the theses, being abstracts of them simplifed
and popularized that the uncolleged public
can catch without too much Intellectual
strain list of them is here given, with the
names and places of their writer's and defenders:
Bachelors of Arts-In Greek-A. A. DeLarme, Du-
dianapois, The Ethics of Socrates w G. Hudson.
PiE Plato and Aristophane.; A. NJ Malcolm, sleeth
The Protagoras and the Georgas Of Plato, A. Rabb
art. Riohland "The Nichomachean Ethics"
~ In FrenchTW L Fee Blo sn11 on French
Woman Writers of France; r. Newland, Bedford,
The French Language; NJ. Wallingford, Blooming
In German-E. Taylor. New Albany, The nliad
and the Nibelungenleid."
In History~G. W. Gorlitz, Hernhut. saxony
In Philosophical. A Dugan, Auburn, "Heredity
Psychologically Considered" J; A Mitchell, Carbon
Walters Greensburg. THE Culture of the Imagina-
In Bology-E. P. Bicknen, Indian apos. "a Review
of the Genus Semotilus; W. s. BlAtchley Balm bridge.
The Flora of Monroe County Indiana NJ. Ever
of e
Founders and Soles of North America and Europe"
Mest 81 4t me I+rEta6ty Of thu Muscles Of
the seisnoid Fishes Of Europe and America B. +
Halstead Harbour Springs, Mich. Every Mans
House His Castle;" Percy Burnett, German Influence
Doctor of Philosophy-O. P Hay. Irvington. ''The
Bachelor of Philosophy-C. L. Hooper, Public
Charity and the Lowest Class"
With the aid of this table for instance, if any
one wishes to oppose Mr. E. P. Bicknelrs IRE
ready to defend 1t IN the reportoral rooms OF the
News, in this city. A. Rabb will defend Platos
Republic at Snoddy's Mills, etc.
To be brief, the old hallelulah, South Carolina
style of impassioned oratory commencement has
had its day. Students don't get their audiences
into ecstasies over the Mathematician ethics"
or shed any brine over "a Review of the Found
ers and Soles of North America and Europe"
The same conditions are in force, only at
greater extremes, in Rose Polytechnic and Pur-
due. The good old high-schoo commencement,
with salutatory and valedictory, class
prophet and historian music after each piece,
and carloads OF flowers made into anchors and
pagodas has gone forever in Indiana But one
extreme is no excuse for another, and college
Students especially young men, should commit
and energy to dignity the occasion But all this is
mint, anise and cumInin by the side Of the pur
poses and results of university. This should
be judged by every day in the year, BY the uni
versty atmosphere, to speak.
What speaks for the State University is its
intelligent and harmonious board-such mon AS
James D.; Maxwell Bloomington; Julius W.
Youche, Crown Point; James L. Mitchell, In
danapolis Isaac Jenknson. Richmond; Robt. S. |
Fort Wayne; David d. ,Banta, Frank |
lin; Robert Miers, Bloomington; Robert D. Rich |
ardson, Evansvlle-taking a live interest and |
never missing day of attendance; college men |
all, and on the board for years: the growth in |
students, 156 in 1885, POP in 1886, and 263 in |
1887; the doing of original work by the students
and professors. attested by the seventy
scientific and professional papers published in
scientific journals and government reports and
listed in the catalogue; the securing as teachers
men from the great centers OF university learn
q Europe and America
There is doubt out that the Indiana col
eges are on the up grade In mechanics, Pur-
due and Rose are both FULL Wabash has fur
nisbed hundred mon of note to Indiana; old
sbury bore the burden in pioneer days and
has done . mighty work for church and state;
Butler. Fran kiln and Hanover, with Earlham, are
all expoundinz and doing the work for which
hey were ordained by wise and God fearing men.
1t is pleasure too, to notice that the State is
its own educators, and that they stay
,y the guns
Professor Coulter has this spring declined
college presidency the West at 81, 900 year.
md DIR. Jordon che at s., 900, TO stand by their
york in Indiana Both commenced as high
chool men in Indiana
With wise foresight, the college faculties and
boards Of the State have put the best young men
o tutorships and assistant professorships; have
ent them abroad half pay to study, and SO
'rought them to the front These, com bined
With men of note from all schools and nations,
ave developed a system of home education for
indiana vastly superior, as compared with her
leeds and purposes, to any outside schools
There is much need for Indiana to have her
wn higher schools as her primary schools or
or own railroads. The men that mold and
irect-lawyers, teachers. physicians preachers,
journalists-must como up from
mong and be of and this 10 the argument
Or a state system of education terminating in,
nd headed by. State universities. The annual
ommencements which were SO auspiciously
laugurated at Bloomington yesterday, bid fair
) be the most promising the State has ever seen.
Prof. Rufus Green will study mathematics in
din burg University the coming year.
State Superintendent Toilette and Auditor
ruce Carr attended the alumni exercises.
c. L. Hooper, class 1877. took the prize of the
obden Club. There were three contestants.
DR.. Branner, professor of geology, goes this
onth to Arkansas as State Geoiogist, at a sal
" of $500 year.
Prof r. G.. Boone, of chair of pedagogics, |
i'll spend the year Cornell, Harvard and |
bins Hopkins, stud ring university methods and
stems.
Seven hundred dollars was appropriated for
rof. Van Nuys chemical laboratory; 5000 was
t aside to buy books in special departments
lis summer. ,
Prof John Sterling Kingsley, elected associate
'ofessor of natural history with DIR. Jordan, is
graduate of Williams Collepe and PHI ID Of